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Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia

An operating granite quarry 10km SSW of Lake Boga (17 km S of Swan Hill). Phosphates and uranium minerals occur in miarolitic voids. Pegmatite veins are common.

Refs.:
- Birch, W. D., Mumme, W. G. & Segnit, E. R. (1988): Ulrichite: a new copper calcium uranium phosphate from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineral. 3 (3), 125-131.
- Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D. (1988): Sampleite and associated minerals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Austral. Mineral. 3, 135-148.
- Birch, W. D. (1993): Phosphate minerals in granite rocks. In Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. (Birch, W.D. and Henry, D.E., Eds). Special Publication N°3, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, 5-39.
- Birch, W. D. (1996): Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian J. of Mineralogy 2 (2), 47-50.
- Birch, B., Pring, A., Kolitsch, U. (1999) Bleasdaleite, (Ca,Fe 3+)2Cu5(Bi, Cu)(PO4)4(H2O,OH,Cl)13, a new mineral from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 5: 69-75.
- Mills, S. J. (2004) Metanatroautunite (‘sodium autunite’) from the Lake Boga Granite, Victoria, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1), 29–31.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Maas, R., Phillips, D. & Plimer, I. R. (2008) Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55(3), 281–299.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W. G. & Grey, I. E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia, American Mineralogist, 93(4), 691–697.

- http://www.crocoite.com/deeplead/lakeboga.htm.





Map Reference: 35°33'8"S , 143°34'31"E

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Mineral List:
  • Albite
  • Anatase
  • Apatite-(CaF)
       var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
  • Atacamite
  • Azurite
  • Beryl
  • Biotite
  • Bismuth
  • Bleasdaleite (TL)
  • Chalcanthite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Chalcosiderite
  • Cheralite
  • Chlorargyrite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Chrysocolla
  • Connellite
  • Covellite
  • Crandallite
  • Cyrilovite
  • Digenite
  • Djurleite
  • Ferberite
  • Fluorite
  • Geerite
  • Hematite
  • IMA 2007-024
  • IMA 2007-057 (TL)
  • Iodargyrite
  • Kaolinite
  • Kidwellite
  • Lakebogaite (TL)
  • Leucophosphite
  • Libethenite
  • Limonite
  • Malachite
  • Meta-autunite
  • Metanatroautunite
  • Microcline
  • Molybdenite
  • Monazite-(Ce)
  • Muscovite
  • Natrodufrénite
  • Nontronite
  • Opal
  • Orthoclase
  • Portlandite
  • Pseudomalachite
  • Pseudorutile
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
       var: Smoky Quartz
  • Rockbridgeite
  • Rutile
  • Saléeite
  • Sampleite
  • Schorl
  • Siderite
  • Strengite
  • Topaz
  • Torbernite
  • Turquoise
  • Ulrichite (TL)
  • Unnamed (F-analogue of schorl)
  • Uraninite
  • Variscite
  • Wavellite


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